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The Pirate Bay Starts Using Virtualized Servers

Posted by Unknown on from the they-took-our-media-jerbs dept.

concealment writes with news of those Swedish pirates improving their infrastructure. From the article: "The Pirate Bay has made an important change to its infrastructure. The world's most famous BitTorrent site has switched its entire operation to the cloud. From now on The Pirate Bay will serve its users from several cloud hosting providers scattered around the world. The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids — all while keeping user data secure." They are still running their own dedicated load balancers that forward encrypted traffic to one of their "cloud" providers, rather than dealing with physical colocation. Seems like a sensible decision any IT manager would make.

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  1. Invulnerable? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids

    Wanna bet on that?

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    1. Re:Invulnerable? by interval1066 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey. You. Got off of my cloud.

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    2. Re:Invulnerable? by helix2301 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think it's funny that pirate bay has better disaster plan then most legitimate businesses I know of in my area.

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  2. What kind of RAID by aktiveradio · · Score: 4, Funny

    You think they are using RAID5 or RAID10 to stop the police?

  3. Re:TPB owners living the life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    From here on out I am calling copyright infringement RAPE. Because, after all, that's how I want to frame it. Every time you infringe a copyright, you are raping the artist. And it should carry the same punishment of up to life in prison (or, as has been proposed in some states, death.) Because I say so.

    Death to the artist-raping file-sharers!